"WE NEED YOU" Poster

This is my third and final thing for literacy. I had to make a poster recruiting Maori soldiers to the army. The face looks really weird, and it's not the best I have done, but it's okay. I didn't have enough space for the exclamation mark at the end of "YOU", which is sad.

My favorite part was making the whole poster. Anything to do with drawing is fun for me. The hardest part was the background. I tried to blur it, but not too much, and with triangular blur. The hand was also a little bit hard, but I just copied my hand shape. To be BTB, I could have added more detail to the shapes and added guns, onomatopoeia's, and other people.

Poppy GIF

This is my gif. I made the frames on Kleki.com, then I animated them using "Gifmaker". 

We had to choose 3 things to do for literacy. This is my second one, and so far, my favorite. For this task, we could either make a poppy out of cardboard, muffin wrappers, and stuff or do an animation/GIF of poppies growing. I didn't have the materials for the "real" poppies, so I did a GIF. To make the GIF, I made 9 or 10 (I can't remember,) frames. Fames are each of those steps you see. They make up a GIF. If you miss a frame, sometimes it looks like there's a part missing in the whole GIF. So, I made the frames. The next step is to animate it. I went onto gifmaker.me, put the frames in sequence, and voila! A perfect GIF! This was the first time I had ever made a GIF, but it wasn't that hard. I will probably do another one, but not with flowers.

My favorite part was drawing the frames. It was a bit hard to do some parts, but it was fun. The hardest part was not missing any frames and making the GIF flow nicely. I did miss a part in between where the flower grows lots of petals and when it opens up. To be BTB, I could have done the poppy growing out of the ground as a seed.

 

Current Events

Today we did the "Current Events" quiz. My team got 13 out of 20 correct, but we got awarded another pint from the teacher. Everyone else go 13, and we got 14, so we won.

The hardest part was the actual quiz. The questions were hard. My favorite part was researching the "Lost city of Gold". To be BTB, I could have added more, but I only had 20 minutes.

ANZAC Morse Code

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This is my ANZAC literacy post. I had to choose one thing from the Taiao site to do. I chose the morse code because it looked really interesting and I didn't know anything about it except S.O.S and "e". Now I know my name ~ -- .. .-. --- ~ and a little but more. If your bored and want to come up with a way to communicate with your friends, use Morse. (Or Pig-latin.) If you want a way to talk in class, just tap your message in morse code with a pencil, and your teacher will never suspect a thing! (Jk.) 

My favorite part was encrypting the messages. it was really hard because the messages were really long. The hardest part was making the morse code part. To be BTB, I could have added more colour.

Solar Video

This is my (and Lucy's) video about solar energy in our school. We had to find a place in our school that needed a bit more energy/solar energy, then brainstorm and create a model of that place with cardboard or other materials (we used cardboard.) We chose the pool for our place and created the whole area out of a big piece of cardboard, several hot glue sticks, and a vivid marker. We also made bleachers (a fancy name for seats), the changing rooms (where you change, obviously), and the storage/other stuff room (where the heater is).

Some things we added were:

A black floor to the pool (to make it warmer)

Solar tubes in the changing rooms and the storage room

Solar panels to help the heater

Stairs (could we could)

My favorite part was making the actual model. We had to wait for the glue gun though, and that was a long wait. The hardest part was making the video because I couldn't go on the Wevideo video at the same time as Lucy, so it was just all-out confusion. To be BTB, (better than before), we could have taken a picture of the actual pool.